# MFN546 - 2023 Let's Take the Ferry, Mint Sheet of 5, Canada

Canada
2023 Let’s Take the Ferry (Mint Souvenir Sheet of 5)

• Honors Canada’s marine history and the role ferries have played in that history through present-day
• Stamps picture photographs of ferries still in service at the time of issue

Issuing Country:  Canada
Value:  Domestic Mail Rate (Permanent)
First Day of Issue:  July 12, 2023
First Day City:  Tobermory, Ontario, Canada
Quantity Issued:  60,000
Printing Method:  Lithography in 5 colors
Format:  Souvenir Sheet of 5 stamps
Size:  6.69 x 2.95 inches (170 x 75 mm)

Why the stamp was issued:  To commemorate the Canada’s marine history and the way ferries have been involved in that history through present-day.

About the stamp design:  Each stamp pictures a photograph of a different ferry still in service at the time the stamps were issued:

1)  Spirit of British Columbia – Travels between Vancouver and Victoria (Vancouver Island) across the Salish Sea.

2)  Chi-Cheemaun (“big canoe” in Ojibwe) runs from Tobermory to Manitoulin Island on Lake Huron’s Georgian Bay.

3)  Trillium – The oldest of the five ferries pictured, runs from Toronto to the Toronto Islands.

4)  Alphonse-Desjardins – Travels across the St. Lawrence River year-round from Québec to Lévis.

5)  Grand Manan V – Runs from New Brunswick’s Blacks Harbor to Grand Manan Island in the Bay of Fundy.

Special design details:  Selvage includes stamp details as well as the text “Let’s Take the Ferry!” in both English and French.

First Day City:  First Day of Issue was Tobermory, Ontario, one of the cities serviced by one of the ferries pictured on the stamps.